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Do you get on with them? Do you know them as people? (as well as parents) Do you like them, do they like you? Father: 65 year old French 60's throwback, lives in paris, writes and photographs. A true optitmist, loves the simple life. A nice guy but a crap father - more like an eccentric uncle. Mother: Married to an English chap, lives in Sydney. Not a motherly bone in her body. More like a distant cousin. Pretty vacant. I've never seen them together. |
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they're kind of insane. |
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i kinda respect them. my dad works really hard and is a pain in the ass sometimes when he gets home late (very bad temper) but hes very ok most of the time my mum annoys me at times too when shes acting a tad overprotective (is that a word?) all in all pretty okay |
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i think thats what everyone would have expected from you |
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do they share your [zephyr mode on] dry sense of humor too? [zephyr mode off] |
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wow. you deserve a cookie for making the most OBVIOUS joke on the mb in it's complete existence. |
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what sense of what now? |
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i had the unusual experience of growing up with parents that were only 14 years older than me, it was like being raised by a brother and a sister... they broke up a long time ago, its funny, my dad is this bachelor that goes out with chicks that are barely older than me, which is wierd... and my mum had another baby 4 years ago... the age differance between me and my sister is bigger than that of me and my parents.. |
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i talk to my mom like once per 10 days...my dad something like 1/month...they live together, i visit them once per month or so...during the summer almost every weekend :) since they live at the seaside...i have been living on my own for a very long time, but we're still in a very close contact...kind of... |
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Father - used to teach foreigners russian and russians french, 52, lives in Melitopol with my family and almost doesn't work, dresses badly in order to show absence of prejudices, suffers from melancholy and depression. Mother - used to teach foreigner russian and russians English, 54. Works a lot, but earns a few. I do like them and I don't. Visited them last time around a year ago. I don't like visiting them now because they only talk about money, jobs, education with me. I can talk a lot about them... |
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I get on with them for the most part. Occasional rows and a general atmosphere of courteous detachment between me and my father. Get on well with my Mum apart from when she blames me for her technology problems. I used to think they weren't very cool as I was growing up, but now I realise they're really good. They both like Jazz and "get" more contemporary music like turntabilism and IDM, even if they don't like most of it (my dad likes a lot fof BoC and LFO - Millionaire Dogs). They're pretty supportive of most things I want to do, my dad even encouraging me to save up and buy a Phat boy (midi controller). |
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my dads a depressed trainwreck after the divorce and all he does is watch star trek sleeping on the couch getting drunk in sorrow. i live with him. my mom re-married and is very happy. |
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Mine are OK. I get on quite well with them really. Get on better with my Mum. We're more of the same mindset. They still piss me off at times but that would happen when you live with someone :P |
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Your dad does a mean BBQ :D |
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Mother - wonderful person, too soft to discipline either me or my sister. I never needed a great deal of discipline as a child (never one to make a mess or destroy toys etc, unlike my sister who is a headstrong bitch) Also mum is a real ditz. Usually get along with her, but sometimes she irritates me. My dad is fucking insane smart. Used to be a druggie and lead guitarist in bands. Also short temper (where I get my moodiness from). Usually get along with him, but when we fight it's like hell opens up, he's hit me before because I'm a real fucking smartass and don't know when to shut up. My sister doesn't get along with either very well becaus she's full of herself. She treats mum with contempt and then she's disciplines by dad she thinks he's being mean to her and hates him. Mum then undermines dad's authority and thinks he's being hard on her and undoes his punishment. Then I step in and tell mum to have some fucking spine and stop letting katie treat her like shit and it all breaks down coz then I'm the bad guy. Katie looks up to me for some reason, always asking what I'm listenign to asking if i've got any cds with x drum n bass tune on them etc, irritates me. I don't talk to her much, then I get in shit for ignoring her whichmakes her cry. |
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My father is the laziest guy i know. He told me that he decided when he was 30 that he'd never work again and more or less hasn't. .... i think its sort of rubbed off on me. Hard work is extrmely alien to me. I get by though. My mother once winced when she phoned and i told her about a dream that i tried to kill myself to seek her attention. She asked "do you think you have issues with me?". I said "fucking damn right i do. I'd love to talk it out with a therapist or something".. .. she said "if its not broken, don't fix it". nice |
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Hahaha :D Dont' forget the Moonshine mate! :P |
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Ah yeah, my dad is really bright, Mensan and all that... shit hot at chess too. |
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My dad was a conciencious objector during the french-algerian war and did time for it. I'm proud of that... he refused to take part in murder for patriatism. He's extremely benevelont, helping all sorts of folks in his neighbourhood. He also like IDM! It annoys me that he didn't raise me. |
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my parents still happily married, relationship with them generally amiable, although my moving back home for the year (between degrees to save cash) has put considerable strain on things. i'm 22 next week and i feel like i'm 15 again, being told off for not keeping my room tidy. *sigh* only 4 more months... oh yeah and we have this weird mutual denial about my weed/cigarette consumption. i'm pretty sure they know what i get up to, and they would most definitely disapprove, but they don't talk about it and i don't talk about it. the classic british solution! |
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VLetr :lash some grass into their spag bog, syick on some BoC and sit back!!! CeriJC: do ya get into some serious current affairs debates with him? |
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Ha ha, I'm in the same situation, after moving out for 3 years and being entirely dependent of them for 1, I had to move back in with them to complete my degree. It's a real pain isn't it? "Turn your music down!" "I need to get to your cupboards, clean the floor" I'll soon be out on my own again though :) |
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"so you have to wank at the dinner table" |
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okay this is really selfish and blinkered of me, but i'm gonna say it anyway: i'm kinda jealous of those of you whose parents have lived really interesting and unusual lives, even though that often means things are difficult for their progeny. you can actually talk about interesting shit with them, and learn from their experiences. my parents (electronic engineer and primary school teacher) are typically suburban, dull and conservative. not conservative in the political sense (my parents are pretty much apolitical... my mum got a subscription to the fucking daily telegraph cos it was cheapest, even tho she votes lib dem), but in the sense of having always played it safe. never rocking the boat. |
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Yeah, they're good fun. My only criticism is that he seems slow to understand things I say. I don't know whether he does it intentionally (he's a real pedant and seems to have an ongoing quest to ensure everything I say is logically and grammatically correct, even when the meaning is obvious) or whether he is just a slow (albeit deep) thinker. Despite his being a socialist, he is slowly coming around to my way of thinking regarding tax: That is, the days of the government "looking after you from cradle to grave" are over, like it or not, and it's everyman for himself and that everyone, not just the rich, is taxed far too much for the benefits we recieve from the government, the vast layers of beaureacracy are indicative of the large amounts of money that is wasted i.e. not needed. It's weird, he has never really "done" anything with his life. He claims still to not know what he wants to do. He paints a fair bit and has sold some, but never really seriously. He has never really done a job he has wanted to do either. My mother said in a moment of confidence a few years back, don't be like your father- use your brains for something. |
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haha, god i know exactly what you mean. "if you don't clear away those cds i won't do your ironing"... i don't even care if my clothes are ironed! but my mum wouldn't let me walk around in unironed clothes. jesus christ, i actually am 15 again. i'm gonna have a wank and listen to The Holy Bible and The Bends on loop. |
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my parents are a couple of closet-intellectual yokels from kentucky who make fun of each other and their children all the time. dad worked his way up from the factory to a vp of RCA over 40 years, and is newly retired and feeling depressed without a sense of purpose while mom continues to mother her children as much as possible even though they're both grown. they live about 30 mins from me so i'll trek out there a few times a month to do laundry and catch up. only now am i starting to know them as people and as friends, which is both rewarding and unsettling. i like it though. amazing people, i always feel indebted to them for some reason which certainly weighs on my career choices (probably a bad thing) |
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My parents are allright. They are both math teachers. They have been married for 25 years. They have difficulties with nowadays technologies (my father can't listen to a CD alone, he still doesnt know how to switch on the CD player... you see). I go and see them every week-end. Nothing really interesting to tell you about i guess... oh yes my mother likes the Richard D James album. |
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Haven't seen my dad in 16 years, but I've never really been bothered by that. I have a huge annoying family, so the less relatives around, the better. I love my mom, she's great to me. Our relationship is very distant, because of me and my frigidness. No qualms with her, though. She's not too unhip, since my parents were very young when they made the mistake. I like having a 38 year old mother a lot more than having a 50-55 year old mother. |
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Dad.. a man Mum.. a woman That's all you're getting |
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Dad - Raised in Brewster Project of Detroit. Former agnostic, air force veteran, very caring and openly affectionate with the family. Also disorganized and bad with money decisions. Mum - Raised in Hamtramic(Polish Neighborhood). Former civil rights activist, singer, exceptional tennis player with chronic insomnia. Way to kind to others. Great people to live with. Wouldn't hesitate to kill anyone who threatened them. |
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my mother is very nice, but quite overprotective and sometimes getting angry/nervous, when he doesn't know where i / my brother / my father are. often complaints about having to do the chores in the house and about my father being too shy and not doing anything but watch tv on the sofa with the cat, which i certainly understand... she likes tennis and cecilia bartoli. she often gets migraines. my dad is introverted, sometimes annoying/irritating because of its shyness and how he likes to play on the exactitude of words. he has knowledge about plants, geology and this kind of things... he's a doctor (geriatrist). has a beard. likes to sit down on the sofa, watch scientific programs on tv and let the cat lay on him, so he won't move nor do anything because he doesn't want to disturb the cat. likes the cat very much. introduced me to peter gabriel and frank zappa. |
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oops *she doesn't know... |
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My father and mother met in University. They both graduated with degrees in physical education and spent a short period in their lives where they lived in a tiny appartment, with the back seats of their car ripped out and used as furniture. They eventually went back and got masters in education and became school principals. Now my dad works for a company that brings large classes of Chinese students to Canadian schools for 6 month exchanges. I've been incredibly fortunate to have very sensible and understanding parents. Of course we fought when I was younger, but get along flawlessly now. I also have a brother who is 4 years older than myself and is a bartender in Toronto persuing a courir in acting. |
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your dad sounds like the most loveable creature on earth. |
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